"It's in all the Sacramento papers.

Van Loo is a defaulter--has hypothecated everything he had and skedaddled." Barker started.

He was not thinking of the loss of his wife's money--only of HER disappointment and mortification over it.

Poor girl! Perhaps she was also worrying over his resentment,--as if she did not know him! He would go to her at once at Boomville.

Then he remembered that she was coming with Mrs.Horncastle, and might be already on her way here by rail or coach, and he would miss her.